Improvement in grain-cradles



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHESTER GOSS, OF MADRID, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAIN-CRADLES. l

Specitication forming part of Letters Patent No.. 2,955, dated February16, 1,843.'

v small end that the entire axis ofthe snath is in the same plane, andit will lie close down .upon a plane surface,like a drawing upon paper,and is correctly represented by the annexed drawings, S S, Figure l, andhaving such shape. The point of the Scythe may be governed and madeheavy orlight by the means ofthe nib n in the hand. To the lower end ofthis snath the broad cradle-scythe'is attached in the ordinary mannerupon the lower side. Four (or more or less) fingers ot' the ordinaryform (represented asAa, B 1),() c,D d in Fig. 2) are fastened by meansof a round tenon and pin into the headl a b c d, and are partiallysupported by each other andkept in shape at proper distances from eachother by a light rod,

Ar r r r, passing through and fastened to each linger. The lower end ofthe head e, with a round tenon, is dropped into the snath near its lowerend, e, Fig. 1, with a little play, and fastened by a pin, and thescythe and lingers are mutually supported by means of the ordinary bracefrom the scythe to the lower tin ger. The head and lingers 'are alsosustained, strengthened, and kept in place by-means of braces passingfrom the head and ngers to the snath7 thus: one brace from the head a bc d at 5to the snath at l0; one brace from the lower finger, D d, at lto the snath at 6; one fromthe second iinger, C c, at 2 to the snath at7; one from the third finger, B b, at?) tothe snath at 8; one from thefourth tinger, A a, at

l 4 to the snath at 9, and insimilar manner with any greater number ot'fingers.

1n order that the position of the head and ngers together may be moreeasily changed,

or that the relative position of any one finger Y may be so changed,each of the braces 5 10, l 6, 2 7, 3 8, 4 9 is in two pieces, connectedtogether by a coupling-screw, ff, Fig. 3, from two to fourinches inlength, with a ferrule,

4; or it may have a nut at one end ttted to a screw upon one part of thebrace and join the other part ofthe brace by means ot' va swivel, sothat by turning the coupler one way the rod or brace is lengthened andby turning the coupler the other way the brace is shortened. Thus bylengthening or shortening the brace 5 10 by turning the coupler on saidbrace the position of the head and all the fingers is changed and madeto form a greater or less anglenwith the plane of the Scythe and snathacross thengers, and the workman isthus enabled to set the head orchange the angle of the head and lingers for cutting lodged or standinggrain with equal ease and Without scatteringthat is, if the grain islodged, the

workman turns the coupling-screw to carry the tinger-bracesis tofacilitate t-he cutting of v heavy and light grain. Thus, if the grainis heavy-and thick, the coupling-screws on the finger-braces l 2 3 4 areto be turned in such l a way as to draw the working end of the ngers,and if the grain is light and scattering the coupling-screw on thenger-braces should be turned in such a way as Will fling out the workingend ot' the fingers ot'the cradle, which will enable the workman tocollect more grain.

. The use offerrule, when adjusted on the end ot the rods and within thecoupling-screw, is to protect the end of the screw-braces andgive asmooth surface to the brace-rods and prevent them from catching andholding the straw whenA the cradleis inv operation.

The improvement claimed and alleged so to have been invented ordiscovered by the snbscriber is- A Y 1. The so `constructing the bracefrom the head to the snath 5 10 that its length may be increased ordiminished, and the position of the head and. fingers thereby in a greatmeasure controlled bythe application of' the coupling-Screw and ferruleor swivel and ferrule which facilitates the workman toadjust the craandScrew; die forcntting thegrain,whetherlightor heavy 2. The applicationof the coupling-screw and grain or lodged or standing grain. ferrule andof the screw and swivel tothe braces v or any of them from the lingersand head ot' CHESTER' Goss' thecradle to the snath as a means oflengthlVitncsses: il ening and shorteningr them, and for this pur- JNO.HORTON, pose the making said braces in two pieces each, S. H. CLARK.

